Police say that while at the hospital, the victim’s aunt arrived. She toldinvestigators that officials from the victim’s school had called on April 6 when he hadn’t showed up. She called her sister who sent a text message back saying “we’re ok.”

The aunt believed this meant that the victim was with his mother.

Police located Parler at her boyfriend’s house in Montgomery County, Md. one day after her son was found. She was hospitalized after taken into custody,